Software development

Software development

Easily create classes with rich, declarative attributes - Parameter objects - that include extended metadata for various purposes such as runtime type and range validation, documentation strings, default values or factories, nullability, etc. In this sense, Param is conceptually similar to libraries like Pydantic, Python's dataclasses, or Traitlets. A suite of expressive and composable APIs for reactive programming, enabling automatic updates on attribute changes, and declaring complex reactive dependencies and expressions that can be introspected by other frameworks to implement their own reactive workflows.

"While businesses aren't investing, it's hard to make much progress in the software world," Fowler said. "And so we have this weird mix of no investment, pretty much depression in the software industry, with an AI bubble going on."

"Unlike traditional chat models that generate text-based responses, Computer Use Agent (CUA) models like Fara-7B leverage computer interfaces, such as a mouse and keyboard, to complete tasks on behalf of users," Microsoft said in a blog post. "With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B achieves state-of-the-art performance within its size class and is competitive with larger, more resource-intensive agentic systems that depend on prompting multiple large models."

Momentic makes tools for software testing and verification, a niche currently occupied by open-source frameworks like Playwright and Selenium. Those tools offer complex, fine-grained controls, but Momentic is counting on AI to make the process simple and effective. "We help our customers make sure their product works," co-founder Wei-Wei Wu said. "They can describe their critical user flows in plain English and our AI will automate it."

AWS re:Invent is a learning focused conference and the best place for developer to learn is in one of the roughly 75 sessions on the Developer Tools track. With breakout sessions, lightening talks, chalk talks, code talks, workshops, builder sessions, and meetups, you are sure to find a something that appeals the developer in you. Check you the event catalog, or start with these stand out sessions.

Install the package. Add mock-mcp as a dev dependency inside your project. npm install -D mock-mcp yarn add -D mock-mcp pnpm add -D mock-mcp Configure the Model Context Protocol server. For example, Claude Desktop can launch the binary through npx: Connect from your tests. Use connect to retrieve a mock client and request data for intercepted calls. Run with MCP enabled. Prompt your AI client to run the persistent test command and provide mocks through the tools.

IT development has been around for more than 60 years and it has undergone radical transformations from the emergence of the first programming languages and OS development to the internet boom and the current AI era. Although programming tools and approaches are constantly changing, one thing remains constant: Only those developers who can adapt and master new knowledge and skills survive.

The main feature of the 3.0 release is a new decoupled architecture. This change fixes a key limitation found in earlier versions. In earlier versions of Mimir, the ingester component handled both reading and writing. This setup meant that heavy query loads could hurt ingestion performance. The new design adds Apache Kafka as an asynchronous buffer between ingestion and query tasks. This allows each path to scale on its own and removes the cross-path dependencies that affected system stability before.

Once upon a time, when you ran Windows on your desktop, it was your desktop. Oh, the IT department might have called the shots on how much you could do with it, but you could write what you needed to, and it was all kept nicely on your PC or your choice of network drive. Those days are long gone.

Your competitors aren't building perfect code either. If you spend 6 months building the theoretically perfect architecture, they'll ship something "good enough" in 2 months and eat your lunch. You'll have beautiful code that nobody uses. Tech debt is the cost of moving fast enough to win. The biggest risk in software isn't technical debt-it's being irrelevant. Markets move fast. User needs evolve. Competitors iterate. While you're refactoring for the third time to achieve "clean architecture," your competitor is talking to users, learning what actually matters, and shipping features that solve real problems.

Blender, for those who don't know, is an open-source 3D modeling and animation tool currently sitting near the tipy top of its category. It's used by world-class VFX studios all over the world and, as of 2020, had over 14 million downloads, a number that continues to grow year over year. It's an incredibly successful project and believe it or not you don't have to pay the low-price of $12.99 a month to get a subscription to it.

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As the future success of datacentres becomes increasingly dependent on the performance of networking components that can process massive amounts of data with minimal latency and power consumption, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new version of its dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transponder system, claiming to be the first cloud provider to successfully develop and deploy in-house such technology for both metro and long-haul applications at scale. AWS network infrastructure operates on two scales.

Code migration is a repository-level transformation process that modernizes entire software projects to run on new platforms, frameworks, or runtime environments while preserving their original functionality and structure.

Some software developers complain that they're being required to use AI tools to the detriment of code quality and their own skills. A full-stack developer based in India, who identified himself to The Register but asked not to be named, explained that the financial software company where he's worked for the past few months has made a concerted effort to force developers to use AI coding tools while downsizing development staff.

The most remarkable thing you might notice when coming to Clojure from Java is that it is homoiconic, which means the code is written in the form of the language's data structures. This practice, also known as code as data, results in very consistent syntax with a limited number of keywords and constructs. It also creates a meta-programming model using "syntax-aware" code templates (called macros).

Over this past year, the nature of being a software engineer has really started to change,

Microsoft first introduced the free version of Copilot Chat into Microsoft 365 apps in September, and it's now improving how this chatbot works in Outlook. Copilot Chat will soon be able to view content across an entire Outlook inbox, including calendar entries and meetings. This will allow you to use Copilot to triage an inbox or schedule and prepare for meetings, all without a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot license. It goes far beyond the existing integration that's limited to just individual email threads.

Google today announced a new(ish) programmer's development environment called Antigravity. The company calls it "a new era in AI-assisted software development." And, from a first look I took at its functionality via this video, it well might be. At least for some things. Also: Google's Gemini 3 is finally here and it's smarter, faster, and free to access Some aspects of Antigravity are definitely astonishingly good. It has some features that I think can truly help move your agent-assisted programming forward in very productive ways.

Several premium Google Vids features are now open to everyone. You can edit photos, add voiceovers, and remove filler words. The features should make things easier for beginner editors. Google is unlocking some AI features in its popular video editing platform and letting anyone with a Gmail address test them out. Previously, these features were only available to paid users.

One of the key components of Antigravity is how it reports on its own work. As it completes tasks, it will produce what Google calls Artifacts: task lists, plans, screenshots, and browser recordings that are intended to verify both the work it's done and what it will do. Antigravity will also report on its actions and external tool use along the way, but Google says that Artifacts are "easier for users to verify" than full lists of a models' actions and tool calls.

When I started my career, you could go to a three to six-month boot camp and get a job. That's kind of what I did. After high school, I attended a boot camp and then started a web-design firm with a friend. Then I studied computer science at Harvard and founded a startup with an MBA friend while I was there.

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it is investigating an issue that caused outages for social media platform X, some multiplayer games and ChatGPT. Cloudflare said on its status page earlier Tuesday that it was aware of and investigating an issue that was impacting multiple customers. There were reports of widespread 500 errors as well as Cloudflare Dashboard and API failing. Cloudflare then provided an update that a recovery was underway, but reverted to messaging that indicate they are still investigating the cause of the issue.